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Linux News for Jan 31, 2007

Newsfactor: Is Open Source Superior?(Jan 31, 2007, 23:30)
"Can you improve your IQ? Can you improve it by a factor of
thousands? That might seem like the pipe dream of some overzealous
geneticist. But in truth, it's the promise--and perhaps the
power--of the open source movement..."

LXer: A Dystopian Future--Looking Beyond Windows Vista(Jan 31, 2007, 22:45)
"If the thought of Microsoft Vista's DRM restrictions,
restrictive EULA, version confusion and user lock-in has you scared
then you definitely do not want to know what the lads from Redmond
have in store for the next version..."

ABC Linuxu: Interview: Matthew Szulik, Red Hat(Jan 31, 2007, 19:00)
"What sort of responses do you get about the 'Truth Happens'
campaign? Considering it's not really a regular ad campaign, what
kind of a feedback did you expect and what do you really
get...?"

Phoronix: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 Kernel Performance(Jan 31, 2007, 18:15)
"The intent of these articles will be to provide users with a
better understanding for some of the prominent changes and to see
how the performance is affected in some of our commonly used
benchmarks..."

Groklaw: If Unix Isn't Dying, Why is SCO?(Jan 31, 2007, 15:15)
"Dan Goodin at The Register carefully checked the transcript,
and reported he couldn't find 'a single sentence that addressed the
claim that SCO's own missteps made bankruptcy imminent...'"

Serguei Beloussov is one of those people that's always working on something. When you meet him, he gives you the simultaneous impression that you have his full attention and that his brain is churning away solving some other problem. And believe me, the CEO of SWsoft wants to solve a lot of problems.

SWsoft is a software company that is dedicated to creating virtualization software, as well as virtualization management tools for a variety of markets. That's the five-second PR marketing firm synopsis. The more hard-core geek description of the Herndon, VA-based company? SWsoft is going to take virtualization any where it can by any means it can.

KernelTrap: Interview: Jens Axboe(Jan 31, 2007, 13:00)
"In this interview, Jens talks about how he got interested in
Linux, how he became the maintainer of the block layer and other
block devices, and what's involved in being a maintainer..."

Linux.com: New Drupal 5 Shines(Jan 31, 2007, 12:15)
"It's been five years since Drupal, the popular GPLed Web
development framework, has had a major version release..."

Larabel: Is The ATI Driver Really "Evil"?(Jan 31, 2007, 02:30)
"Those that had bothered to explain themselves were mostly
disturbed due to the lack of Composite and Beryl/Compiz support.
But does this really equate to the driver being evil and ATI/AMD
not caring about their customers...?"

OSWeekly: Spyware: Is Any OS Really Safe?(Jan 31, 2007, 01:00)
"Today, we will be looking closely at Vista, XP, OS X and Linux.
It's my opinion that each of these operating systems does have and
will always have the potential to be targets in the spyware
game..."

Linux-Watch: What's the Best Linux for Resellers?(Jan 31, 2007, 00:15)
"I recently was contacted by a major Unix reseller. The company
had a very simple question: with the writing on the wall for Unix
growing bigger and bigger with every quarter, which Linux should
they adopt...?"